“The Writer” is a clockwork automaton created in the 1770s by the Swiss-born famous watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The mechanism, designed to write words and sentences of up to 40 characters, still ...

Rhett Roxl is a freelance content writer and an avid video gamer. When he's not writing, or playing video games, or writing about video games, he makes and plays music at local bars. The gameplay ...

Made sometime in the 1790s or 1800s London, the Maillardet Automaton has a long and storied history. It was exhibited around England for several decades, brought over the Atlantic by [P.T. Barnum], ...